The Rush University Forum for Research and Clinical Investigation will be held this year from on Wednesday, April 23 and Thursday, April 24. The complete program of events will be posted. All members of the Rush community are invited to the events and to view the poster session.

The Research Forum provides an opportunity to showcase research of faculty and students and to foster awareness of research at Rush University Medical Center and its affiliated institutions. Investigators engaged in basic, clinical, or applied research in various disciplines are invited to share their work with one another and to explore new collaborative possibilities.

Call for Abstracts from Investigators
Deadline: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Abstract Submission Forms

Sigma Xi Poster Session

If you are from Rush University Medical Center or an affiliated institution and wish to submit an abstract for a poster presentation as a student, resident, fellow or faculty member, please use the electronic abstract submission form (accessible from the Rush Intranet only) or the link published for investigators at your own institution.

The email address of the first author must be used as the User Name for the Log In for the electronic abstract submission form. Create your own password and keep it safe. A new Log In User Name and Password should be entered for another abstract with a different first author. The first author should be the presenting author. The password will allow you to re-enter the program to make revisions. If you find an error in your abstract after it has been submitted, you can click UnSubmit, make your corrections, and then resubmit your abstract.

After you have filled out information in the online form, you may copy and paste your abstract (text only; ~375 words) into the space provided. Click the submit button when you are done. An e-mail response to your address will confirm the receipt of your abstract.

Posters will be displayed both days of the Forum, with investigators present for discussion of their work at the reception on Thursday from 3:00-6:00 PM.

Location and Display of Posters

Posters will be displayed in the Searle Conference Center, 5th floor, Professional Building (I) at Rush University Medical Center. All abstracts submitted will be assigned a poster number and allotted a space by poster number in the Searle Conference Center. Obtain your poster number from the program booklet when you arrive to install your poster.

The space for your poster display measures 43" (wide) X 50" (high). Similar to last year, we will be providing two-prong clips which should hold your posters to the boards. We have had problems with pushpins in the past and so recommend using the two-prong clips or Velcro hooks on the back of your panels. Pushpins may be used on the bottom of your poster. Please leave the clips when you retrieve your poster so we may reuse them next year.

You should plan to install your poster Wednesday before 9:00 AM and have it in place through Thursday during the Sigma Xi Poster Session (3:00-6:00 PM). When you arrive in the Conference Center to install your poster, you can determine your poster location from the signs posted in the conference center. The number will be printed at the top of your abstract in the program booklet.

The Sigma Xi Poster Session and Reception on THURSDAY will provide an opportunity for you to talk with others about your work. An awards ceremony will be held at 3:00 PM for student posters. To help organize the viewing and attendance at your poster, the following time periods are suggested if your schedule permits:

ODD # POSTERS, 3:30-4:15 PM
EVEN # POSTERS, 4:15-5:00 PM

Please remove your poster/exhibit following the poster session on Thursday no later than 5 PM. We cannot be responsible for the loss of or damage to your materials!

Note 1: If you think you have a discovery or invention, please contact Matthew Raymond, the Director of Intellectual Property at Rush prior to March 1 to discuss the discovery and options for protecting it. Once the abstract is published or the poster is presented, you may have lost certain rights in the invention.

Note 2: A template for the 43" by 50" posters is attached below. Also a link to the FASEB site with general guidelines for preparing a poster is also included below.

Note 3: The John E. Ware Patient Experience Research Award is given annually to the student project at Rush which uses patient feedback in the most innovative or effective manner. Patient feedback is defined as any as any system of obtaining information from patients/family members about their thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions or evaluation of their health care experience or activities. The award is named in honor of John E. Ware, a pioneer in the systematic use feedback from patients to improve their care. While at the Rand Corporation he was the Principal Investigator of the Medical Outcomes Study which developed the widely used SF-36 Health Survey. The award comes with a $100 honorarium from the Patient Experience Research Initiative of the Department of Health Systems Management.

Poster Template (PowerPoint File 422K)

www.faseb.org/meetings/eb2006/call/posterguidelines.html